The Evening Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1878.

Evening Star, Issue 4895, 8 November 1878, Page 2

The Evening Star. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1878.

The Silverstream water supply scheme was gazetted yesterday.

Upturn Villafls, of tl.c CJutha Rifles, has been appointed to iho adjutancy of the second battni; u of the Ofcftgo VolttflttJerß, It is ;... v generally known that the man whose sudden death at the Island Jhock was reported last week, 'was atone tunc the proprietor of a line of coaches that ran between Clyde and Queenstown. His right name waa Hams, and he was well connected at Homo.

At amce-biMg of the programme committee of the Ufcago Rifle Association last nidit ft* the. Drill-shed (Cantain Wilson In the chair) for the pnrposo of selecting the team to compete, it was resolved that the twelve highest in the aggregate at the association matches (long rides) ehould fire in the match ngamfltt atttcrbury ; and that the council of tile association should select the other three the evening prior to the match. The conditions of the match are fifteen men a-side • 200, 500, and 600 yards; ten shots at each range.

On Ajouday a serious accident happened at Stewart a Island to a woman named Mrs beollay. J mdmg hn- v: |,i|J disporting itself too near the edge of a piveipico, naid to bo from oMt. to 40ft. high near the waters' edge, she ran to the rescue, and the result wan that both toppled over, the child escaping with a few abrasions of no serious description. The mother was not so fortunate, as one of her knee-caps wr.s broken and her other leg was .-everely sprained. From the height tallen, the wonder is that the injuries were not greater than they were. The Southland News' states it will be some time before she is fully restored.

The ' Cromwell Argus' has the following information respecting the very sudden death of Mr John M'Lean, for many years manager of Morven Hills station :—"" On .Sunday Mr M'Lean appeared in his usual robust health, and after partaking of supper retired to rest. About half-past eleven he was attacked with severe pains across the client and in the region of the heart, and the people at the home station were aroused. ine pains continued and increased in violence, the deceased gentleman suflering the greatest agony, and praying even for death as a release. At first Mr M'Lean objected to a doctor being sent for, but ultimately consented, aud a messenger was to Cromwell about three in the moraine About six o'clock, however, death put an <md to the intense suffering of iho unfortrmate frcntlem.-m, w ] lo retained caiaciousness-'it) the Lie doe.asvr! gentleman • vas j n Cro-.mvcll, apparently m hia ugim! h oa l th, on Sto cm-day, and took ill soon after reaching Lome on

The final representation of "LisaEccles" win take place at the Princess's to-night, as will bo withdrawn to-morrow in favor of otruck Oil.

At Roxburgh yesterday morning a tworoomed cottage, occupied by a Mrs Payno, was burned to tho ground. It was insured m the Northern Office for L 75.

The single women by the ship Timaru were landed yesterday, and the remainder of the immigrants landed this forenoon, with the exception- of those drafted for Oamaru, who.will be conveyed to that port by the NY aitaki this evening. There is loud grumbline in Southland ?u S? railway goods tariff in operation there. The «News ' gives a forcible instance 0 "s inequalities. A person was charged over lis for the carriage of six bags of chaff from Invercargill to the Bluff. For Is lOd more he could have bad a truck load, or n »% more bags, sent. There is a little fellow named Anderson, aged about eight years, residing at Miller's ■Mat, who fully deserves to receive the Koyal Humane Society's medal. He has twice within two years, saved life from drowning, A correspondent writes to the Arrow Observer' last week, concerning the boy: "While he and his brother, aged six, were playing alongside the creek at Mr bcolcß s farm, the creek being bank high, the little fellow fell in and was swept away. Lponhis coming to the surface the elder boy caught sight of his hands, and at once plunged in and laid hold of them. Ho was m turn washed off his feet, but retaining his hold, he succeeded in reaching the bank, and the two came out none the worse, except a ducking."

The worst fears respecting the effects of the recent floods on the new Bsadigo bridge at Rocky Point seem likely to be realised. A. gentleman who was up at the structure on Saturday informs the ' Cromwell Argus' that already two arches of the bridge are high and dry, and the only stream running under the span of the structure is apparently gradually shallowing. The main body of water is a long way this side of the new bridge, to reach which it is feared two or three more brides of magnitude will be necessary. Instead of the Clutha being, as hitherto, confaned to one main channel,- our informant thinks that in future the river will run in three or four branches at the particular spot where the bridge now stands. He describes the features of the whole country in this vicinity as completely changed, and where betore holds and gardens were iu existence now there is a deep and uniform bed of shingle.

Last week at Nelson three members of the Naval Brigade drove up in a buggy to the Maitai butts for rifle practice. One of them acted as marker, but in doing so did not use the danger flap. One of his comrades, says tne Colonist, was taking a very steady aim at the target from the 200 yards range, and .lust as he had pulled the trigger, to his horor Dayman came out of the butt. The unfortunate young man had it appears retired to the butt, but there being some little dolay he had got up to see what was the reason the firing had ceased, as he thought, when the bullet struck him in the calf of the leg. The party lost no time in putting the horse into the buggy, and conveying their wounded comrade to Dr Farrelle's, who found the bullet had passed through the leg and had come out of the side of the knee, shattering the knee-joint. The case is a very dangerous one. ..-.«' °

John Hughes, better known as "old Jack," one of the oldest settlers in the Colony, died at Hampden on- Monday "Vulcan," in the < North Otago Times,' says of the deceased, " He was eighty-four years old, and came to this island fifty-five years ago. He carried on the sealing and whaling trade for many years, and lived among the Maoris m their savage state, and many a stirring adventure he went through, beine often m danger of life and. limb, the strength of the latter often saving him from his dusky foemen. He has been residing on his Droperty in Bagdad Valley for many years, but was confined to his bed for about a vear having no serious trouble whatever j «.' old man just died of old an© >- ', and *, he lot of land once in S'-" 1 ° \ xe Maimed a time with r ' ..juney, but not being in p.-'. - .us papers, was done out of it. tho Trovmcial Government of Otago a few years ago granted him 100 acres in block I, Otepopo. He leaves one daughter, who is married and hm U'6 children. The old man Was followed to the grave by a large number of his friends."

A man known by the name of Edwin May. for some tim<? back employed at Cargili and Anderson s station, Mataura, has just died, and having nr) kijown friends o» ; redatitfft? neac> &n ttXftmin&tldri by thd police of his papers and effects disclosed the following particulars concerning him. He had been a private in the 12th Lancers, and from his parchment oertifioato of discharge, granted on the termination of his limited engagement, and dated York, dfch August, ml, and ifi whitih his flams ia given as JMwM Straddon, it appeared that he was born in St. David's Parish, near Exeter, County Devon, England; that he had enlisted at Exeter 13th August, 1840, having been in ihw Bef Y'm ftfterWf m ftitOgefeW fdf twelve ydars, Wo yeafe and six niontns at the one year in the Crimea and at Scutari, and font years pd six months in India. He was ill possession of IcJtir" medals—Victorian medal, South Africa, 1853; Crimea, 1834; and the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, He was fortj-sevMi, Jteafs ef ajje, ( Perhrtps this notice oi the deceased soldier may ediile to the observation of some of his relatives.

There are still further rumors agitating the newspaper world in Wellington. The ' Sun's' correspondent there Wi'lteS i- "It is said the 1 New Zealander' and ' Chronicle' are likely to amalgamate as a morning and evening Journal. Under the editorship of Mr Anderson, "■_■ X by Ut Balkan, wd that most of t'.ic old _ directors of tho 'New Zd&hvAet' have resigned in disgust. It is no wonder. For some time the paper has been only one wmpve better than the ' Chronicle,' which is undoubtedly the moat scurrilous and unscrupulous journal in New Zealand. After the late Verdict is repeated its truculent amide of the proprietors of the 'Post' for several days, until it learned accidentally [ that had it kept quiet the Blundoll Bros, intended, with rare generosity, to have returned to the present proprietors of the ' Cronicle' that guarantee for its former proprietor, Mr Gardiner, and bo have relieved the pre cnt firm from all the monetary consequences of the verdict, in the shape of damages and plaintiffs' costs, probably at least Ll5O. This would have been done to show it was not to crush a rival, but to vindicate their own honor, that the case was brought. As soon as the 'Chronicle' got scent of this they, having in tho meantime reiterated the libel again and again, dropped all I'efefertcc to the case, and a ' go-between' was sent to the 'Post' to know if it would , act as above if left alone. Tho ' Post' very ' properly refused to make any tcrma under I what was really a threat." i

The charge against the late Captain Goldsmith, Mining Inspector at' the Thames, which drove him to committ suicide, appears to have been a bare net on the part of the woman M'Gregor, alias Trouecau, for the purpose of levying black mail upon him. The ' Lyttelton Times's' Auckland correspondent telegraphs that the woman had taken her girl to J)r Payne for the purpose of. examination, and the undecided manner in which he spoke to her Mid other* caused an impresoion to get about that a crime had been committed. He found that,the statement was not without foundation, and relying upon his favorable testimony, M'Gregor had laid the information against Captain Goldsmith, but the warrant was never executed. At Goldsmith's funeral Dr Payne read an affidavit, drawn up in due form, exonerating Goldsmith from the charge, and affirming that the child had never been injured. He also stated that M'Gregor had more than once during her interview with him alluded to the probability of obtaining money to keep the charge (piict, and that she would not have offered the charge had Goldsmith not been a man of means. Dr Payne's statement bears the impress of truth, and the past career of tho woman M'Gregor was not :mch as accorded with a very moral code. The doctor had told Goldsmith of his interview with her, and the nature of tho charge likely to bo profeirvd, and as Goldsmith's health was infirm, and ho was f-übjoct to rjreat •nervous-vvs-s occasionally, it is supposed he went home from iMyneV, and, in a fit of despondency at the thought of such a disgraceful charge being connected with his name, had deliberately ended his career,'

The Hon. the Colonial Seoretary and the Hon. the Native Minister will reach town late to-night by special train. '"' The Consolation Stakes at Christohurch yesterday was won by Chancellor 'in a canter, m lmin. 52Jseo, The other starters were Mireille and Lady of the Lako. • The Mooraki Harbor Board prays for dipsolution, and to that end has dispensed with the services of its officers. Its-receipts during tho past two months were LO, and its expenses L4O.

A laborer on the railway near Wairipu (Southland) mcb with a peculiar accident last Saturday. He was wheeling a barrow up a plank when a strong wind caught the harrow and upset it. In tipping over one of the handles struck him on the left thigh with such force as to break it. The entries for the Oamaru show are in excess of those of last year, being 1,032, as against 953. The following is the list of entries :—Horses, 19(5; cattlo, 127 ; sheep, I<>3 ; pigs, 5 ; poultry, 50; dairy produce, 140; cured meats, 15; implements, 33; buggies and harness, 4; flour and broad, 16 ; gram and seeds, 80; dogs, 10; private prizes, 170 ; extra exhibits, 23, T ™ e Australasian WoWhy Grand Lodge, w V. VT-? was mstituttd in the Tempcrn»oe SuV Btrfißt » S y d »ey, on MondaV the 14th October. The Grand Lodges of New Zealand, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmai;l j' « New South Wales were sented. Representatives of Queensland and VV osteta Australia had been appointed, but unavoidable circumstances prevented their attendance. The Rev. R F. Kingdon Was instituting officer, and was subsequently elected W G.T. Bro. H. Bennetts of Christchurch, Now Zealand, was elected W.G.C , and Bros. H. G. Rudd and P. G. Dunn, ttf Victoria, W.G.S. and W.G.T. i«,pectirely. A committeo was appointed to prepare a declaration in ieference to the negro question, by which the Order of Good Templars has been so much agitated during the past two years wherein it shall be stated. that, the members of the Worthy Grand Lodge declare the Independent Order of Good lemplars to be thoroughly cosmopolitan in ite character, and open'to all ranks of manKind irrespective of race or color. A corresponding committee was appointed to endeavor to secure intercolonial political action tor the advancement of Temperance prin°n?" «r Wa ? resolved that the next seseicn of the Worthy Grand Lodge be held at Dnnedin, New Zealand, in January, 1881. rhe session was formally closed after sitting two days. °

The officers who have ohavge of the arrangements connected with the racing at the Foffy terfwT h l Ve tle « «»* Mel« F. Mmr and W. Stuart being honorary members of companies are entitled to compete. In Drake and Collins's consultation en the Melbourne Cup the fir-fc three ho, 8( » were kSw ww Sutton A Morß y ? lace > T °™ JUik, w. H. Ronayuc, Oamaru, Waxy Messra Wilkie. and Co. have sent u« some S n jS ly fr ted P of the ys pal parts of Queenstown when the flood was at Lr-fS 1g v £ e cle f ness with wm<!h the photo. h f., has *?»\ »3 work, enables one to to that district. Hart, Campbell, and Co., of Queenstown are the photographers.